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Jason Jay
Hear name pronounced.Senior Lecturer, Sustainability
Jason Jay is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of the Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan. He teaches courses on leadership, strategy, and innovation for sustainable business. Jason engages students and alumni…
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Associate Professor, Applied Economics
Namrata Kala is an Associate Professor in Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is an economist with research interests in environmental and development economics. Her current research projects include studying how firms and…
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Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability
Christopher Knittel is the Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability, the George P. Shultz Professor and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to MIT Sloan, Knittel taught at the University of California,…
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Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd Professor in Finance and Economics
Robert Pindyck is the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd. Professor in Finance and Economics and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Pindyck’s most recent research focuses on economic policies related to rare disasters,…
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Senior Lecturer, Finance; Assoc. Faculty Director, MFin Program
Gita Rao is a Senior Lecturer in Finance, and Associate Faculty Director of the Master of Finance program at the MIT Sloan School of Management.She joined the MIT Sloan finance faculty with over two decades of experience in global investing, asset…
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Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management
John D. Sterman is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Professor in the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. He is also the Director of the MIT System Dynamics Group and the MIT Sloan…
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William Barton Rogers Professor in Energy
Catherine Wolfram is the William Barton Rogers Professor in Energy and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She previously served as the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of…
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George M. Bunker Associate Professor
Yanchong (Karen) Zheng is the George M. Bunker Professor and an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is also the faculty leader for the Sloan-Affilated LGO degree program. Her research studies…
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"Digital Collateral."
Gertler, Paul, Brett Green, and Catherine Wolfram. Quarterly Journal of Economics. Forthcoming.
"Improving Farmers’ Income on Online Agri-Platforms: Evidence from the Field."
Retsef Levi, Manoj Rajan, Somya Singhvi, and Y. Karen Zheng. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Forthcoming.
"Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning."
Jack, Kelsey, Seema Jayachandran, Namrata Kala, and Rohini Pande. AER: Insights. Forthcoming. MIT Climate Portal.
"The Impact of Managerial Autonomy on Firm Outcomes."
Kala, Namrata. Econometrica. Forthcoming. NBER Working Paper.
"Using Machine Learning to Target Treatment: The Case of Household Energy Use."
Knittel, Christopher R., and Samuel Stolper. The Economic Journal. Forthcoming. NBER Working Paper.
"Productivity, Population, and Sustainable Consumption."
Pindyck, Robert S. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics Vol. 16, No. 4 (2024): 218-238. SSRN Preprint.
"How to Improve Citizen Engagement on Public Service Platforms? The Impact of Government Responsiveness."
Topic: Operations Management
Qihua Gao, Yasheng Huang, El Ghali Zerhouni, and Y. Karen Zheng, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7044-23. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, September 2024.
Keywords: Public Service Platforms, Government Responsiveness, Citizen Engagement, Causal Inference, Empirical Operations Management
"Improving Cash-constrained Smallholder Farmers’ Welfare: The Role of Government Loan Policies."
Topic: Operations Management
Pay, Wenhong, Somya Singhvi, and Y. Karen Zheng, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7043-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, May 2024.
Keywords: Socially Responsible Operations, Smallholder Farmers, Cash Constraints, Government Loan, Policy Design
"Strengthening Enforcement of the Russian Oil Price Cap."
Johnson, Simon and Catherine Wolfram. Brookings Institution Working Paper (2024). Appendix.
"The ’90s Are Over: 5 Reasons to Embrace Carbon Pricing Today."
Clausing, Kimberly and Catherine Wolfram. The Hill, March 26, 2024.
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Innovate or Evaporate: Decentralized Power Generation as the Key to Kyrgyzstan’s Green Economy
written by Shamil Ibragimov, discusses how Kyrgyzstan, facing significant challenges from climate change, can leverage decentralized power generation—particularly solar energy—to secure its energy future. It highlights the country's vulnerability due to its reliance on hydropower, which is threatene...